Police say he climbed over a 4-foot fence and managed to get 20 feet up the northern-most Brooklyn Bridge cable before an NYPD officer on foot patrol spotted him. The officer told him to get down. He complied and was then taken into police custody.

Souid was taken to the 84th Precinct in Downtown Brooklyn. He remained in police custody Saturday evening and was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass.

In July, a pair of U.S. flags were taken from the Brooklyn Bridge and replaced with white flags. A pair of German artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Mittias Wermke, eventually claimed responsibility for the swap. They sent a video to The New York Times, which was apparently recorded from the top of the bridge next to one of the white flags.